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Danh ngôn của George Bernard Shaw (Sứ mệnh: 8)

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Syllables govern the world.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
My reputation grows with every failure.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.